Rajeshwar Singh, a pracharak, the head of Dharam Jagran Samiti, a western Uttar Pradesh-based Hindutva group, on Friday said that the “biggest-ever” conversion camp to be held in Aligarh on December 25 will be held at “any cost.”
His confident and forceful statement of fact comes even as Avdhesh Tiwari, ADM, Aligarh city, dissent from getting any application from the right-wing group for authorization to organise the programme.
A number of organisations in Aligarh termed the “ghar vapsi” programme a strive to “disturb” communal harmony in the city, which is just returning to a normal state from the controversy of the BJP forcibly trying to organise the birth anniversary of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh on the AMU campus.
Earlier, Mr. Singh make a formal public statement that 4,000 persons, including 2,000 Muslims, from different parts of western UP, would “reconvert” to Hinduism in a programme likely to be held on Christmas.
“We would not let the ‘ghar wapsi’ programme be affected by anybody. It doesn’t matter if we don’t get the permission of the local administration to organise it, because we will go ahead with our plan at any cost. If the need arises, I will organise the event on private farms,” Mr. Singh told the media over phone. Samajwadi Party government might pose a hindrance, he said.
“We don’t want to go against law and order and we wish to organise the camps in a peaceful manner. Even if the State government tries to stop it, we won’t let the event to be affected,” maintained Mr. Singh.
Jasim Mohammad of the Millat Bedari Muhim, an Aligarh-based outfit, working in the areas of education and communal harmony has written to the CM of Uttar Pradesh, asking him to ensure peace in the city.